Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America
A Revolution on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families...
by Jonathan Huener
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz...
The Rescue of Joshua Glover
A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen...
Internal Frontiers
African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history...
African Miracle, African Mirage
Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent. At the same time, Marxist scholars—most notably Samir Amin—described the capitalist activity...
The Life and Death of Gus Reed
A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and...
The Red Earth
A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between...
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of “legitimate goods”...
Inventing Pollution
Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns...
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism...
Indiana’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Indiana’s War is a primary source collection featuring the writings of Indiana’s citizens during the Civil War era. Using private letters, official records, newspaper articles, and other original sources, the volume presents the varied experiences of Indiana’s participants in the war both on...
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless...
States of Marriage
Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideological...
by Carlos de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or...